Chess - classic or dud?

To answer - no set strategy
I’ve visited a page with the classic openings
Didn’t do much for me. Seemed kind of obvious?
Oh well, I’m happy to not read music , it’s not about that

I'm on fire today. Got my highest blitz rating (1116).

my opening game is just knights for days

Some Kazakhstani dude just took my pawn en passant and at first I thought it was an error in the code..

fabiano caruana has won the right to challenge carlsen for the world title -- he's the first u.s. contender since fischer in 72:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/an-american-will-play-for-the-world-chess-championship/

Ugh, I just lost a second game on time. Was 12 points ahead this time. I guess it's just not a good time to be playing correspondence.

Wanted to take a break for awhile but only lasted 2 days til I jumped back in.

Yeah S I think you lost our last game on time ( as opposed to you probably winning by mate eventually)...

Why don't you try 14 days? Give yourself a bit more of a cushion?

I won with a bit of a dirty trick here lol: https://www.chess.com/daily/game/190758208

Can’t decide to be zen or not. Like golf

Mated someone ranked +100 and up 40 points in the last few weeks, word up

Nice work. Have you figured out En Passant out? It took me about 3 months to work out that rule lol.

Yeah for sure. I’ve only had the chance to use it against someone else once since I learned what it was, and jumped at the opportunity just because

Ten Fiddy

this is a dumb question but what is the best site to get started playing online/get a rating etc

chess.com or lichess are your two best options

chess.com - Kevin look me up, you’ll get your first win I’m sure

I'm MarteauSansMaitre. I think I'm ready to try playing again.

have any of you found any books useful for improving your game?

Bobby Fischer's book covers a lot of basics well.

game 5  👍🏻

beautiful

prepared drawn positions are beautiful?

😂#CarlsenCaruana pic.twitter.com/3wqIU9Uito

— Chess.com (@chesscom) November 15, 2018

Ok Lars

Someone please do a big blunder. That's all we ask.

nah, that would be lame

what we need is for someone to find the outlandish machine move that would have won like 3 of these games

Tie Break games played today at 3pm GMT (watch live online!)

tiebreak match will be played with time control 25 minutes for each player for the whole game, plus 10 seconds of an increment for each move, starting from move one.

If the first tiebreak match of four games ends in a tie, the players will play a new match of 2 games with time control 5 minutes for the whole game, with 2 seconds of an increment for each move
(I think they try this up to 5 2-game matches) If this end in a draw then..."ARMAGEDDON!!!"

sudden-death Armageddon match is where white has five minutes and black has four minutes and both will receive a three-second increment after the 60th move.
If that game is drawn, black will be declared the winner.

first 12 normal time control games all ended in draws:

https://www.chess.com/article/view/world-chess-championship-2018-carlsen-caruana

I hate that it will be decided by tie break games. Either add five more matches or declare that there is no winner this round imo.

Will still watch it tho.

The tie break should be 100 bullet games imo.

I was amused to learn the 1984 championship went 5 months and 48 games before ending inconclusively.

The format I liked best I think was 24 games, where the current champ needed 12 points and the challenger needed 12 1/2.

underway:

https://www.chess.com/wcc2018

the twitch chat is good if you want to see ppl posting "draw" over and over again

Looks like Carlsen's winning. He's 1.24 up according to chess24.

Magnus taking forever here

making him sweat

yeah but it's still exciting bc he's let 5 or so minutes burn off his clock when there seems to be two obviously winning moves - Rxd4 and Bxe6

maybe he's trying to figure out if Rxd4 line will mate?

there we go some action

magnus up 1 pawn after that damn

In its favor, I must say that rapid chess is more fun to watch for a punter like me.

xp Caruana has unconnected pawns too, Carlsen should be able to pick him off

this looks like a draw to me but idk obv what these guys are thinking

rook endgames are usually draws at this level iirc

feel like magnus probably should've been able to win idk and now his time is becoming an issue i'd think

Weirdly, this is happening across the street from my flat and you’d never know unless you were looking carefully for the venue.

this twitch stream is entertaining because you get the feeling that the GM thinks the IM is talking a little too much and saying a lot of dumb stuff lol

ended with a blunder